24/11/2010 - 25/11/2010

Lisbon, Portugal

Attending this Briefing and Roundtable will help you to protect your reputation and reduce your legal risks and costs from failure to comply with Portugal's data protection law. The risks result from a distinctive Portuguese interpretation of the EU Data Protection Directive in some areas different from the majority of other EU Member States. You will learn about strong Data Protection Commission policies on, for example: whistle blowing, drug and alcohol use records, e-mail, Internet and video monitoring in the workplace, tracking of mobile phones, international transfers of personal data, and circumstances in which the range of enforcement tools, such as inspections and prosecutions are used. Learn how to prepare your own compliance plan.

The Commission’s new policy on whistle blowing: A framework for responsible, confidential, but not anonymous, allegations to permit a right of response by the accused

Health records and use for management of fitness to work and absence from work

Drug and alcohol use records:Criteria for an acceptable access and use policy according to relevance to an individual’s role within the organization; and distinction between working time and out of work behaviour

Rationale for the Commission’s policy for European Union model contracts and inter-group agreements

Duties of controllers and processors

The US Safe Harbor program

A company designating a processing operation ‘adequate’ even though it is not in a country declared tobe ‘adequate’ by the European Commission (EU Data Protection Directive Art 26.2 – interpretation of ‘adequate safeguards’)

If the Commission refuses to authorize a type of processing (making it illegal), how can a company appeal?

If the Commission uses its power to shut down a database, how can a company appeal?

If a company applies for Commission authorization to start a type of processing, for example, video surveillance, what should it do if it has not received a reply within a period of, for example, three months?